UN Calls for Psychiatric Evaluation After Duterte Puts Top Human Rights Expert on 'Hit List'
The United Nations human rights chief suggested that Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte’s mental health should be evaluated after the authoritarian leader included a U.N. official on what Human Rights Watch has called a “government hit list” of alleged terrorists.
Duterte’s justice department listed Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, the U.N. special rapporteur on indigenous human rights, on a list of 600 people who have allegedly used “acts of terror” to undermine the president. The list labels those on it as members of the country’s Communist Party or its armed wing, the New People’s Army (NPA).
“He needs to submit himself to some sort of psychiatric examination,” said the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein. “This kind of comment is unacceptable. These attacks cannot go unanswered, the U.N. human rights council must take a position.”
“He needs to submit himself to some sort of psychiatric examination. This kind of comment is unacceptable.” —Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, U.N. human rights chief
Tauli-Corpuz was included on the list after she reported on the displacement and killings of the Philippines’ indigenous Lumad people at the hands of Duterte’s armed forces, allegedly due to “unfounded suspicions that Lumads are involved with militant groups or in view of their resistance to mining activities on their ancestral lands.”
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